Archive for ‘August, 2015’

Film is based on the autobiographical writings of Eugenia Ginzburg (published in English in 1967 as Journey into the Whirlwind) who served an 18-year sentence in the Gulag.

During Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, literature professor Yevgenia Ginzburg is falsely convicted of anti-Soviet agitation and sent to a Soviet concentration camp. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets Dr. Anton Walter (Ulrich Tukur), a Crimean German political prisoner who is a camp doctor in Kolyma. He recommends her for a position as a nurse in the camp infirmary. They fall in love and, slowly, Yevgenia begins to come back to life.

The true story of Alexander Pearce, Australia's most notorious convict who escaped from a penal settlement in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour in 1822.
Macquarie Harbour, a remote prison camp guarded by miles of impenetrable wilderness, was feared by convicts banished there as a fate worse than death. Sentenced to slave labour, a work party of eight Irish, English and Scottish thieves attempt the impossible in an infamous bid for freedom. Totally unprepared for the arduous journey ahead, their escape into the harsh Tasmanian wilderness becomes a futile battle between man and nature. As supplies dwindle and tensions amongst the group escalate, they soon contemplate the unthinkable.
They end up lost, angry and starved, leading them to awful acts of violence and cannibalism.

Producers of this unusual film have created a new genre: what will forever be known as the "sampling movie," where filmmakers piece together footage from other big-screen features to create a new one.
In this case, a secret society's leader known simply as the Grand Poobah has died, so a scramble ensues to quickly find a successor. Everyone from a circus monkey to a former disco king wants the title, so it's a wild ride until election day.

Almost two decades after he was killed in a police shootout in Medellin, the life and culture of cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar continues to captivate people. And a new TV series about Escobar’s escapades is breaking records in Colombia.

Based on the best seller "La Parabola de Pablo" by journalist and ex Major of Medellin, Alonso Salazar, the series is based on real life events and is backed up by an impressive journalist documentation that makes it the most ambitious TV series from Colombia. In the series we are presented with a provocative and realist look at the life of one of the most famous criminals of the XX Century: Pablo Escobar. Considered by some a hero and by others the most violent of "Capos" ever.

On Wings of Eagles is a 1986 two-part mini-series, based on real events/persons, taking place during the 1979 Iranian revolution. Two employees of American computer company EDS are falsely imprisoned by local authorities and held for ransom while the country falls into chaos.
Under the circumstances, EDS CEO Ross Perot (Richard Crenna) has no other option but to employ the services of retired Lieutenant Colonel Arthur E. 'Bull' Simons (Burt Lancaster). He devises a plan to lead a team of local EDS employees to return to Iran and free their colleagues.

A famous director Vincent Omen, nicknamed the Maestro of Horror, shooting another zombie movie, quarrels with the screenwriter and fires him. He decides to take revenge Vincent and enters his home, taking with him the same resentful director actor. There villains suit massacre Omen and his family, in the best traditions of the genre.

Through the prism of a beauty pageant staged by female inmates of a Siberian prison camp emerges a complex narrative of the lives of the first generation of women to come of age in Post-Soviet Russia.
Miss GULAG explores the individual destinies of three women: Yulia, Tatiana, and Natasha, all bound together by long prison sentences and circumstances that have made them the vigilantes of their own destinies.
For these women, undoubtedly, life is harsh under the constant surveillance of UF-91/9, but it is no less so on the outside. Today they, their families, and loved ones are sustained by hope for a better life upon release. This is a story of survival told from both sides of the fence.

Jelly Knight (Dudley Sutton), Lenny the Dip (Kenneth Griffith) and Scapa Flood (James Beckett) are released from prison after completing their sentence for robbery. They immediately go in search of their one-time leader, The Duke (Anton Rodgers), who was supposed to safeguard their share of the loot. Upon release from jail, the trio are greeted at the prison gates by the Duke’s slinky girlfriend Sara (Charlotte Rampling), she tells them that the Duke is dead, and their money is gone. The penniless trio quickly sense that something is amiss, though, and before long find themselves immersed in yet another criminal scheme...

Based on a true story, "Murder in the Hamptons" is the story of Generosa Rand, an ambitious young woman who married multi-millionaire banker Ted Amon. What starts of as a so called 'perfect marriage' soon turns into a nightmare for Ted as his wife becomes more & more jealous & crazed.
Realising that she is mentally unstable, Ted decides to divorce her, she takes the couples 2 children & moves into a new apartment where she meets a construction worker who becomes her lover and who soon becomes a suspect when Ted is found murdered...

The vainglorious Prof. Rohr-Sauger has discovered that the funding for his new Time Machine will be pulled unless he can show the sponsors a working demonstration, and so the Professor searches for an unwitting guinea pig...

Follow the outrageous adventures of the unfortunate Dr Kristi Lust as she erotically travels through time and space!